Hope and Flowers

Hi Everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Ours was great! Jonathan had a great birthday and was super excited about all the very cool toys he got. We are looking forward to trick or treating tonight. I was glad that I was able to do some stamping over the weekend, because today is just going to be too busy to do any!
So, on to the card. I created this for the final week of the Viva La Verve sketch challenge this month. The sketches this month were all so very awesome and I thoroughly enjoyed each of them. Once again, I have linked all the products at the bottom for you in case you are interested in learning more about them. Have a great day and Happy Halloween!!

Challenges for today's card: 
Card Makin Mamas: Die Cuts
Cuddly Buddly: White on White
Lily Pad: Texture
Raise The Bar: Sew What (stitching, real or faux)
Hiding in my Craft Room: Anything Goes
Marks Finest Papers: Use your scraps
Sweet Stampin: Anything goes

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"Monkey Man" Happy Birthday!

Hi everyone! Today I am here to share a very special card with you. On Sunday my youngest son will turn six years old. Oh goodness, where has that time gone?!! I wanted to do a very fun, bright and cheerful card for him. I call Jonathan and my little "monkey man" so this stamp from Stampendous was just perfect! I used papers from Lime Twist's Fly a Kite 6x6 paper pad. My coordinating colors are Hawaiian shores, Pumpkin Pie, Pure Poppy and some green textured card stock from Bazzil. I stamped the image on watercolor paper and used my aqua painters and watercolor pencils to give him a little color. As you can see, I have started to list the products used for each card I post. If you click on the picture of an item, it will take you to a location where you can purchase the item if you are interested. That's all for me today! Enjoy your weekend, and I'll see you all on Monday!

Challenges for today's card:

4 Crafty Chicks: Paper Piercing
Art Impressions Stamp Challenge: Card for a Young Boy
Charisma Cardz: Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday: Sketch
Shelly's Images: Tic Tac Toe (I chose the middle line: Twine, Free, Punches)

Label Eight Nestabilities Spellbinders	Petite Scallop Circles Spellbinders	Apron Lace Border Punch Fiskars	Aqua Painters Stampin Up
Water Color Pencils Stampin Up!	Mat Pack Stampin Up	Pumpkin Pie card stock Stampin Up!	Hawaiian Shores Card Stock PTI
Changito In Space Stampendous	Signo White Gel Pen Uni-ball	Lime Twist "Fly a Kite" My Minds Eye 6x6 paper pad

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Black and White Hello

Hello Everyone!

Yesterday when I was trying to decide what sketch I should use for my card, I finally remembered it was Wednesday; and Wednesday means SCS sketch day! It has been positively Fuh-Evah since I have done one of these. I just always forget, which seems to be the case with a lot of things in my life lately, LOL!

Anyhow, I thoroughly enjoyed this sketch; and it allowed me to do some other challenges easily as well. I really meant to get it up yesterday; but I just ran out of time.  It's all pretty simple, so I'm going to get this posted and linked to the appropriate challenges.

365 Cards: Everyday Sayings
Craft Room Challenge: Black and White
Crafty Sentiments Designs: No Designer Papers
Creative Craft Challenges: Fancy Edges.
My Time To Craft: Quite White
The Paper Shelter Challenge: Anything Goes
Scrapbook Sisters: Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes

Links for Supplies used in this card:

Stampers Select White Card Stock PTI	Scalloped Sentiment Border Punch Fiskars	1 1/4 scallop square punch Ek Success	VersaMark ink pad
Swiss Dots Embossing Folder Provo Craft	Black Soot Distress Ink Tim Holtz	Flower Garden Inkadinkado	Thinking of You Messages Hero Arts
Circle Pattern Background Hero Arts	Clear Embossing Powder Amer. Crafts

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Christmas Tree Joy

Good Morning Everyone!

I'm here to share my card for yesterday's Mojo Monday sketch. I decided to make a Christmas card. I'm not sure why it is, I seem to be on a Christmas card kick already which means I'll probably be completely over them by the time Thanksgiving rolls around! LOL. Anyhow, for this card I used Simply Chartreuse, Aqua Mist, and Ruby Red along with pattern papers from The Season's Greeting 6x6 paper pad from Echo Park.

I stamped and embossed the Tree from Inkadinkado on white card stock with Peeled Paint Distress Ink and clear embossing powder. I used my blending tool with Antique Linen, Vintage Photo, Crushed Olive and Fired Brick Red Distress inks to create the background for the image. I used a blender pen with Peeled Paint, Broken China and Fired Brick Red to add the color to the tree. The Circle and "Joy" Sentiment are from Verve's "Tag Time" set. I used some ribbon and button with the twine to secure the tag. I added some gold stickles and some red stickles to the scalloped edges on the left side; and then the gold brads at the top corner to complete the card.

Only one other challenge for this card:

Crafting When We Can: Christmas

Have a great day!!

Laugh a Little

Hi Everyone!

I hope your are enjoying your weekend. I made this card on Friday; but just haven't had a chance to post it until now. This is my card for this week's Viva La Verve Sketch Challenge. I embossed the polka dot background on the Simply Chartreuse background with Versa Mark and clear embossing powder. The striped patterned paper is from Simple Stories "Happy Day"  6x6 paper pad.  The balloon is from Verve's Up Up and Away. I stamped it with Memento Rich Cocoa ink and then used Copic Markers to color it in. I added the bits of bling to balloon for a little sparkle. The sentiment is from Hero Arts "Live Life" set and is stamped with Ruby Red ink onto Verve's "Graph Paper" Plain Jane that I stamped with Old Olive ink and cut out.
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday and I will see you all tomorrow!!

Challenges: 
Charisma cardz: embossing
Southern Girls: Spots and Stripes
4 Crafty Chicks: Marker it Up
Fairy Fun Fridays: heat embossing
Corrosive Challenge Blog: Things that fly
Kenny K's Krafty Girlz: Get Dotty
One Stitch at a Time: Emboss it
Pile it on: Be happy
Scrappy Frogs Challenge: Things that fly

Mojo Noel and a Snowflake Too!

Hi everyone I am finally here to share my Mojo Monday card for this week with you. I'm sorry that I have not been here this week to share with you; but I have been very busy crafting.

I just have not had a whole lot of time to blog. I am currently working on Christmas cards that I will be sharing with you after Thanksgiving. I have also been working hard on Christmas cards to send to Operation Write Home. They have to be there by October 31 so that has been taking a lot of my time as well. Anyways on to today's card. This was a fun sketch and one that I enjoyed doing very much I used some new patterned papers from Echo Park called Holly Jolly Christmas.I used Aqua Mist, New Leaf,  and Blushing Bride from Papertrey ink. I also used Taken with Teal and Ruby Red from Stampin Up! As with any Mojo Monday sketch I always try to use at at least one Verve stamp. For this card is the grid tag stamp is from their "Tag Time" set. The NOEL sentiment in the center of the tag is from a set of stamps purchased at Michael's. The snowflake in the bottom corner is from an Inkadinkado set. I embossed the snowflake using tumbled glass distress ink and Irridescent embossing powder to give it a little sparkle and shine. The rest of the card is self explanatory and I am getting ready to move on to my next crafting project; and pick up the kids from school!  So with that I will bid you all goodbye for the day. Enjoy the rest of your evening and I will hopefully see you again tomorrow!

Other Challenges:

KB Cute Monday: Anything Goes
Woodware USA: Anything Goes
My Time To Craft: Punches and/or Die cuts

Love Beautiful You

Hi Everyone!

Hope you all had a fun weekend. Ours was low-key; but still fun. I was completely and shamefully lazy on Saturday; but I did do some crafting. Yesterday, we made Halloween cookies and played the Wii in the afternoon and I was able to make this card for Viva La Verve's sketch for week 3 October. It took me all day to do it! LOL because I did a little and then stopped and then came back and just tweaked it more and more. I finally got it finished and I have to say, I really like the end result. A few weeks ago, I took advantage of the sale that 2 Peas was having on 6x6 paper Pads. I bought 4 Christmas pads and 4 other pads. The one I used on this card is from Jillibean Soup "Dutch Mustard Soup" pad. I love the greens and browns,oranges and yellows in this collection. I used Verve's "You and I" set along with the "I Heart U" Die Set. I also used some Real Juicy Orange Sparkly Fluff from Our Craft Lounge just to dazzle things up a bit.

Challenges:

Inspire Me Fridays:  Anything Goes
Catered Crop: FTR23. (I used: Fall Colors, Pattern Paper, Ribbon, buttons, Die cuts and Punches)
Pan Pastel: Add two buttons
Stamptacular Sunday: Anything goes

Have a great day everyone!

Rock Star Birthday

Hi Everyone!

Taking a break from Christmas cards for you to share a quick birthday card. I decided to use the classic color combination of black, white and red on this one. I got the layout idea for this card from an issue of

"Just Cards" magazine.
The guitar stamp is from Inkadinkado's "Rock Star" set. The birthday sentiment on the side is rub-on from Stampin Up!
So, just a quick easy card. I'm off to work on another card and some layouts. Have a great day everyone!

Challenges: 
Divas by Design: Buttons
Sisterhood of Crafters: Birthday
Whimsy Stamps Challenge: Diecuts or punches
Celebrate the Occasion: Any Occasion must use black and red
Charisma Cardz: In stitches (real or faux)

Santa Claus is coming....(eventually!)

Hi Everyone!

Just another little Christmas card for you this afternoon. I used Monday's Mojo Monday sketch for this card. I don't have any Verve Christmas stamps; but anytime I do a Verve related challenge, I try to use at least one Verve Stamp. For this card, I used "Tag Time" for the curvy book plate stamp. The "Santa Claus" stamp in the middle is from a set of Christmas stamps that I picked up last year from Michael's. I stamped the Santa Claus image with Bravo Burgundy and the sentiment with Charcoal Chalk ink from Color Box.  I used patterned papers from American Crafts "Merrymint" collection and various other coordinating papers for it. I'm not sure that the Martha Stewart Lattice punch at the top was the best choice; but I just bought it the other day and I couldn't wait to use it!! I also got some baker's twine, and I added some of that to the top as well.
Just a couple of other challenges for this card:

1. Anything Goes: Die Cuts or Punches
2. Paper Take Weekly Challenge: 3 or more shapes. (rectangular for the base, the 2 squares and the curvy label)

Have a great evening, and I'll be back again tomorrow!!

A CASE study Christmas

Hi Everyone!

I hope you are all enjoying your long weekend. Ours has been fun, lots of playing and some crafting too. Went to Michael's this morning and took advantage of some of their sales today and my 50% off coupon. Anyhow, I do have a couple of cards to share with you today. The first is for this week's CASE study challenge. As you can see, I changed the colors and I did that because I really needed to make Christmas cards for OWH.  I did, however keep the sketch as similar to the original as I could. I was quite happy with the result and will probably make another one for my own personal Christmas collection.
I used PTI New Leaf, Pure Poppy, White and Black for my color palette. The stamps are from Inkadinkado.

Challenges for this card are:
CASE Study Challenge:
Crafty Purple Frog: Lots of Layers
The Stamp Man Challenge: Circle it
Little Claire's Design: Christmas
Mark's Finest Papers: No Designer Paper
One Stop Craft: Anything Goes

The second card for today is for the second week of this month's Viva La Verve sketch challenge. This was another fun sketch and it really made me realize how you could take some nontraditional stamps and use them for Christmas themed cards. I used New Leaf for my base and a piece of pattern paper from Hobby Lobby. I used the faux letter press technique for the top half of the center circle. I brayered my snowflake cuttlebug with Bravo Burgundy ink and then laid my white circle in there and ran it through the machine. This is such a fun fun technique and one that I have a feeling I will be using a lot for my holiday cards. I added an Ocean Tide scalloped circle and a lighter blue circle mat as well. The flowers and leaves are from Verve's "Sunny Days" set. The sentiments across the center are rub ons from Stampin Up.


Just a few challenges for this card:
Creative Inspirations Paint: Embossing
I did it Creations: anything goes
One Stitch at a Time: Anything goes
Woodware USA: Anything Goes

Have a great evening everyone!